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It’s safe to say that Toronto Blue Jays prospect Andy Burns had a pretty good 4th of July weekend.

Burns plays for the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats, and on Sunday he came through in the clutch by delivering a two-run, walk-off home run in the 10th inning to give his team a 9-7 win over the Trenton Thunder.

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A walk-off homer would be the highlight of the day for any baseball player, but Burns’ day was about to get a whole lot better. Right after his late-inning heroics, Burns drove about 45 minutes to Hampton, N.H. and proposed to his girlfriend, Kate Schmeling.

“It kind of got out on Twitter, it made it sound like I proposed right after the walk-off. But this was actually thought of well before even the game today,” Burns said, via MiLB.com. “The walk-off was something unplanned. In the 10th inning, I thought to myself, ‘You know what, I’ve got to get out of here. I have bigger things to do today.’ I ended up getting a good pitch and hit it out. You really can’t write a better story than that.”

Schmeling obviously accepted Burns’ proposal, because how can you not marry a guy who proposes to you right after hitting a walk-off homer?

Here’s a photo of the couple, courtesy of Burns’ teammate, Daniel Norris.